{"id":178479,"date":"2018-11-16T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/16\/dead-man-walking-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T23:56:00","slug":"dead-man-walking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/16\/dead-man-walking-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead “Man” Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not stating that  Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is not a human being, I am saying that he is an immature spoiled child who lacks the maturity to be a fry-cook, much less the de-facto absolute ruler of 33 million people<\/p>\n

That’s the first thing I thought when I read that the CIA had issued a report where they concluded that MBS had personally ordered the hit on Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>.  (As an aside, this would NEVER<\/b> would have happened if John Brennan was still running the CIA, because he’s been a tool of the House of Saud since his day as a CIA station chief in Riyadh.)<\/p>\n

The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, contradicting the Saudi government\u2019s claims that he was not involved in the killing, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/span>

<\/span> The CIA\u2019s assessment, in which officials have said they have high confidence, is the most definitive to date linking Mohammed to the operation and complicates the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to preserve its relationship with a close ally. A team of 15 Saudi agents flew to Istanbul on government aircraft in October and killed Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate, where he had come to pick up documents that he needed for his planned marriage to a Turkish woman.<\/span>

<\/span> In reaching its conclusions, the CIA examined multiple sources of intelligence, including a phone call that the prince\u2019s brother Khalid bin Salman, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, had with Khashoggi, according to the people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence. Khalid told Khashoggi, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post, that he should go to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to retrieve the documents and gave him assurances that it would be safe to do so.<\/span>

<\/span> It is not clear if Khalid knew that Khashoggi would be killed, but he made the call at his brother\u2019s direction, according to the people familiar with the call, which was intercepted by U.S. intelligence.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In related news, it appears that MBS threw a tantrum when presented with a cease-fire plan for Yemen<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Multiple sources tell CNN that a much-anticipated United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a cessation of hostilities in Yemen and for Saudi Arabia to allow humanitarian aid to reach millions of starving people was “stalled” this week after the resolution’s sponsor, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, met face-to-face with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.<\/span>

<\/span>Two sources said the crown prince “threw a fit” about the resolution. Two other sources with knowledge of the discussion didn’t go so far as to describe the crown prince as angry, though they didn’t deny he was annoyed. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously,  what the f%$# is wrong with this guy?<\/p>\n

This is what end-stage royal inbreeding looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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